THE PAINTING Mirabelle Jagoe looked at the full length portrait in the museum gallery. Looked and longed. She visited Halstead Von Bischoff at least once a week, twice when it was late openi...
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THE OLD HOTEL She had been a fancy lady in her day with curved Regency skirts, a large balcony, big-eyed bow fronted windows with cast iron lashes, and boasting a complexion of clear Portla...
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My humble little blog has been sadly neglected for some while as life and work has taken over. Today it's been brought to my attention I may have a new readership since venturing into l...
http://thepoetlaura-eate.blogspot.com/2023/03/a-big-hello-to-all-my-new-readers.html
I used to love blogging and at one point had a sizeable world audience but the world has changed and sadly blogging has become the poor relation of other social media, which is a shame as i...
http://thepoetlaura-eate.blogspot.com/2022/10/the-power-of-comms.html
Post-modernism like it's going out of fashion!
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Post-modernism like it's going out of fashion!
http://thepoetlaura-eate.blogspot.com/2022/08/a-word-from-cicero.html
I recently went for a job managing the premises of a care home complex and was horrified to find that post-Freedom day, post jab, the poor residents (now inmates) had fewer human freedoms than a...
http://thepoetlaura-eate.blogspot.com/2021/09/torturing-elderly.html
This is the longest break I've accidentally taken from my now-14 year blogging career. Not because I don't have anything to say, but because I have too much and most of it would be banned, wh...
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It's been a sad beginning to the year with the loss of two acting greats. First, my favourite actor Hal Holbook (1925-2021), a Tony winner, five-time Emmy winner and Oscar nomine...
http://thepoetlaura-eate.blogspot.com/2021/02/rip-hal-holbrook-and-christopher-plummer.html
It's been a year of so many shocks but it was a particular shock to find out our dear friend Dorian van Braam died suddenly at the weekend only the day after we had spent a jovial ev...
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Above are some photographs from yesterday's Freedom march in London. It is estimated that over 100,000 of us attended. The atmosphere was wonderful despite...
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I can't switch on the TV or radio lately without hearing about the great 're-think' or 're-set'. The chattering classes particularly wax lyrically on Radio 4 about the elongated dawn chorus w...
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Scarcely six months since the 40th anniversary celebrations of the cult film Quadrophenia in September 2019, Brighton's iconic Madeira Drive, possibly one of the most famous stretches of road ...
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This is the world I was promised as a child... And I want it back! Who do I sue...? Post-modernism like it's going out of fashion!
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In support of a loved one in this situation, whose children have not only been alienated from him by an ex who clearly hates him more than she loves their children, but from his entire famil...
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I love dolphins, birds and rainforests as much as the next person and used to regard myself as Green, an environmentalist. In fact I wrote the first environmental policy for the Oxford colleg...
http://thepoetlaura-eate.blogspot.com/2020/04/environmentally-responsible-not-green.html
If there were no conspiracy theorists, would there still be conspiracies? If there were no conspiracies, would there still be conspiracy theorists? (What a genius word conspiracy is; f...
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If 'The truth will set you free', why do so many of us seem so scared of it? To believe in a delusion or set of delusions surely sets us up for far worse.... It is nigh impossible to co...
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'What did you do in the war Daddy? 'I shopped our neighbours on social media for having a glass of wine with a friend on their balcony son.' We are at war it seems. Which brings out both th...
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You’ve Had Your Chips At first it seemed a marvellous idea. A microchip implant which meant you never had to carry (or lose) money, keys or ID ever again. What freedom! Especially for som...
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I fervently hope that when we get to the end of the ghastly CO-VID situation, it will put an end to any notion that 'disruption' is any way exciting or sexy. It is not. It is destruction by...
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Fed up with being scared silly watching the doom and gloom on News at Ten each night and having a bad night's sleep as a result? Well why not do something about it? Why not switch off the news,...
http://thepoetlaura-eate.blogspot.com/2020/03/muse-at-ten-mass-mind-power-experiment.html
The famous British 'stiff upper lip' may be unfashionable and even mocked in the world of woke but the wobbly lip simply doesn't serve us! I am shocked that the 'nuclear option' of potent...
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Noticing that Brighton and Hove's William Hill betting shops have closed down the other week, it's time for serious questions to be asked when even the parasites are leaving town! 'Disruption...
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While my childhood in the 1980s wasn't the happiest, I was aware that around me was an optimistic society. Our hair was big and our pop music was bouncy (if you didn't count The Smiths). A pa...
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